Science

Water services in small towns: at the tail end of development

Mireia Tutusaus and Klaas Schwartz edited a special issue on “Water Services in small towns in developing countries” in the…

6 years ago

Change in Water Storage Maps Added to Living Atlas

A new image service has been added to the Living Atlas of the World. It shows monthly change in water…

6 years ago

NASA building new tools to manage water as climate dangers grow

After an unusually dry winter, a late-season storm finally soaked California in early March, piling up several feet of snow…

6 years ago

We can see how humans have altered Earth’s water resources

For millennia, humans have harnessed rivers, built dams, and dug wells to quench our growing civilization. Now, for the first…

7 years ago

66-year-old Alan Turing paper inspires new water-purification technique

When you think about the English computer scientist Alan Turing you most probably think of either his code-breaking efforts at…

7 years ago

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles

Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles – by accident. The breakthrough could help solve…

7 years ago

Scientists Create Super-Thin Flowing Water that Shimmers Like Soap Bubbles

SLAC: The liquid sheets – less than 100 water molecules thick – will let researchers probe chemical, physical and biological…

7 years ago

Algae from wastewater solves two problems: biofuel and cleanup

In one of the first studies to examine the potential for using municipal wastewater as a feedstock for algae-based biofuels,…

7 years ago

What logging does to your water

There are a lot of issues with deforestation. However, for some nations around the world, logging jobs provide stable sources…

7 years ago

Plastic debris found in tap water, beer, and sea salt

You may think you're ingesting a safe, clean product, but you're really putting synthetic microfibers into your body. It is…

7 years ago